Such a simple, elegant idea: make abandoned rusted bikes into public furniture by spraypainting them and planting flowers in the baskets. That's exactly what Caroline Macfarlane and Vanessa Nicholas did and they called it The Good Bike Project. Would be a nice project to do here in Utrecht, where bike wrecks are a dime a dozen...
found via notcot, images via visuall.net At the latter you can also read a nice interview with these artists.
Luzinterruptus (Latin for 'interrupted light') is a Spanish art collective that makes eerily beautiful light installations. For their most recent work 'Under nuclear threat' they made an army of scarecrow-like nuclear figures. Their ghostly appearance, a threatening death march upon their surroundings, appeals to the modern fear of what events such as occurred in Japan might do to our world.
found via fecalface.com, images via luzinterruptus' website: luzinterruptus.com
Only a few days left to submit your work for the next issue of O.K. Periodicals. We are still searching for illustrations, photos, stories, graphic design, typefaces, product design, art, etc to feature in the THRILLER issue.
So share your fears, show your excitement and contribute!
A simple way to get your work in the MOMA or TATE Modern or Palais de Tokyo or...
Click above right on the SUBMIT button for more info! And invite friends ofcourse to drop us a line as well.
David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors.
In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser - One of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists.
David A Smith
davidadriansmith.com
A Film by Danny Cooke
dannycooke.co.uk
Soundtrack by Tony Higgins (Junior85)
freemusicarchive.org/music/junior85/
~via Hulagirls Utd.
Starting on the 14th of september there's an exhibition on Walter van Beirendonck in the MoMu (Antwerp). An incredible designer with a well deserved repuation. Go and enjoy!
Revolights is a project featured on Kickstarter.com. (Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world.) Revolights is an amazing and innovative bike light solution.
So what is it? Revolights consist of 2 thin profile LED rings (white in front, red in back) that mount directly to each wheel rim (just below the brake calipers) using a series of rim specific clips. In other words, your wheels will become your bike lighting! As the images clearly show.
Go to the website to see it in action! (and help funding it)
As a follow up on my post from last saturday I hereby present you a event organized by onlab.Wish I was in Berlin.
In the context of our Summer School we will hold a public conference at HBC in Berlin with the two designers and experts Francesco Franchi and Stefan Fichtel. The Italian and German guest speakers will present their work and discuss with Nicolas Bourquin and Thibaud Tissot in a cross-disciplinary panel.
After the commercial success of the world acclaimed and (at the same time) highly criticised books Data Flow, onlab would like to invite the public to discuss and expand the definition of contemporary information graphics in the field of Editorial Design.
This exhibition titled 'Savage Beauty' at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York just closed, and how I wished NYC was closer by so I could have seen it. Late Mr McQueen's famous creature-like clothing is visually stunning, technologically superb and conceptually sound. If you're familiar with his work (and you probably are), there's probably nothing explicitly new to see here, but it's still awesome eyecandy.
Also, do you remember that projection of Kate Moss on the catwalk?
images via the Met website
Testing The Water
01 september 2011 t/m 15 september 2011
Tijd: donderdag t/m zondag 12.00 - 18.00 uur
Locatie: Showroom Arnhem, zijde Kleine Oord
Plaats: Arnhem
Met als titel ‘Testing the Water’ exposeert ArtEZ van 1 t/m 15 september het werk van studenten van de Korean National University of Arts.
-1 september 18.00 uur: opening door dhr. Dolf Pellenbarg, directeur Fine Art van ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten.
Locatie Showroom Arnhem, Langstraat 20, ingang Kleine Oord
-7 september 16.00 uur: lezing door de van oorsprong Koreaanse kunstenaar Lee Eun Young.
De lezing wordt afgesloten met een rondleiding over de tentoonstelling.
Locatie Showroom Arnhem, Langstraat 20, ingang Kleine Oord
De expositie is gratis te bezoeken.
Deze bijzondere tentoonstelling toont foto's, video's, hologrammen en driedimensionaal werk van de jonge Koreaanse talenten. De samenwerking van ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten met de Korean National University of Arts uit Seoul/Zuid Korea komt voort uit het met zorg aanhalen en onderhouden van haar internationale betrekkingen.
De titel van de tentoonstelling staat voor het uitproberen van iets nieuws, voor het opdoen van een ervaring om te kijken of het bevalt. Een onderzoekende houding aannemen, vrijblijvend van gedachte wisselen zonder pretenties. Een uitnodiging tot een open relatie met de wereld en daardoor een nieuwe manier van omgaan met historische en politieke gegevens.
‘Testing the Water’ is naast een tentoonstelling ook een uitwisseling van ervaringen. Het draait om samenwerken, discussiëren, openstaan voor de ander en het vertalen en interpreteren van beelden en concepten. Het biedt de gelegenheid om kennis te maken met hedendaagse kunst uit Korea, met elkaar en om internationale contacten op te doen. Studenten van ArtEZ maken een videodocumentaire van dit proces, welke tijdens de tentoonstelling te zien zal zijn.
(bron: artez.nl)
Great mural drawings by David Shillinglaw. He made one in Arnhem as well at Subwalk. Browse throught the images on his website.
Fase, four movements to the music of Steve Reich.
A very moving, strange and captivation choreography
You can watch the movie on:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mj0l_anne-teresa-de-keersmaeker-fase-1-5_creation
Irina Werning: "I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today... A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future."
http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/
Polder Cup is a one-day football championship in the polders. The fields are displaced in a way that water channels intersect them, encouraging players to seek and invent new strategies for this game with new rules. A banner in the façade of Witte de Witt functions as an open call.
4th September, 2010. Ottoland. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and Skor / Foundation Art and Public Space. The Netherlands.
“onlab – specializes in graphic design with a compelling story to tell – is not an ordinary design studio. Based in Berlin, it both works with clients and creates its own books, and operates around a single philosophy: that design is a narrative that can change how people approach the world.”
is what Andrew Losowsky says about onlab, a Swiss graphic design agency based in Berlin.
Many of you will already know them but for those who don't here's a little peak in to there portfolio for more work please visit: onlab.ch
The idea of exploring the mirror for the installation has grown from the desire to capture, explore and experiment with the landscape, rather than the built form. The project itself is not important on it's not, as much as is its relationship with the site. the mirrorlab is merely a tool to explore and capture the views of the existing and by doing so it becomes invisible, completely dissolving into the landscape. A simple insertion into the bridge, solely supported by the two points, mirrorlab adds a new dimension to the site, both inside the arc by doubling and inverting the space, and outside by capturing and framing the views. Pivoting through the centre, the door allows the visitors to interact with and become part of the installation, immersing themselves into and exploring both the real and the reflected landscapes.
http://vavarchitects.blogspot.com/
The most recent usual unusual stuff from Banksy. Witty, funny, but at the same time sharp-tongued and sarcastic. One piece was posted next to a Bristol highway, until it was taken down by cops of the UK Highways Agency - who assure the BBC it wasn't because they felt ridiculed by the Banksy sign. Check out the BBC article about it here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-14574419
Banksy has also been featured on 'Street Summer', an initiative by UK TV Channel 4 to offer a space on air for urban artists to make unmediated short pieces for the screen. A compilation of his ad breaks you can see in the video above.
via hypedot.com
In this post just a few examples of the drawings made by David Shringley a Scotland based artist who makes drawings, animations, tattoos, texts and so on. Wonderfull work and quite funny if you ask me, I love this kind of humor. If you like the images above please visit his website and discover what else David is making.
Thanks Minke for the tip.
Everybody who ever tried to get a kid to go to sleep must recognize the theme of this book. Trying to be nice, but most of all, trying to get children to go to sleep. This one is nice for both parents and children, with nice illustrations and lovely texts. So go the f•ck to sleep!
Buck is an ordinary guy. Well, if you accept the "deer head" thing.
Today, Buck is going to spend the afternoon with his girlfriend who's so happy to see him (she's pretty much happy always). But when Buck finds out that her father is not the tolerant and sympathetic guy he expected, the Sunday afternoon turns really bad. Really bad. Like baaaaaaad bad.
The works by Anne Wölk are like a cinematic scenery. I can't keep my eyes of the paintings and drawings. The abstractness, the details, the colours and the composition pulls you in her cosmos.
Via Beautifuldecay
As Marloes Pijfers explains on her website, Reputation 2.0 'is not an ordinary management book (...) but an illustrated introduction into the world of 'online reputation management'. Quite unlike a lot of the management books out there, it explains strategies of online representation in short, clear, unpretentious verbal and visual language.
Regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s.
Spanning over 60 years, the exhibition covered Crouwel’s rigorous design approach and key moments in his career including his work for design practice Total Design, the identity for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, as well as his iconic poster, print, typography and lesser known exhibition design. The exhibition explored Crouwel’s innovative use of grid-based layouts and typographic systems to produce consistently striking asymmetric visuals.
Not only for graphic designers, I think this exhibition will be really worth checking out!
Also, on the 1st of September there's an Items Live lecture where designers as Experimental Jetset, Na Kim, Hugues Boekraad and Thonik discuss Crouwel's work and influence. And then the next day go see Crouwel himself at Now We Are Talking festival in The Hague.
The work of John von Bergen is kind of cryptic. Hs website shows no explanation except the titles of the works. And even those are not telling us anything about the work itself. However, if you take a moment the drawings, sculptures and installation he makes are rather fascinating. It takes a moment but they will get you, intrigue you. Have a look at his website here. Give it a try!
An intruiging experiment by Skyrill. Type Fluid is a series of animations showing type that's being filled with a fluid when a character is full it explodes....making stills of the characters exploding gives the most wonderful images.
Watch the complete set:
http://www.skyrill.com/blog/2011/07/03/type-fluid-complete-set/
A book filled with "olifantenpaadjes" (translates into elephantpaths). Photo's by Jan-Dirk on which you can see the small pathways created by shortcuts people make. No matter how well streets and pavements are thought out, there is always a minor detour to avoid. One of the most innocent forms of civil disobedience, which results in a really nice photobook.
Fear not, bookworms and library rats. Two fellow bibliophiles, novelist (The Name of the Rose) and critic Umberto Eco, and playwright and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, have collaborated on a volume whose title says it all: This is Not the End of the Book: A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac.
Read about it over here (very very interesting!)
Quote Umberto Eco:
“The Internet has returned us to the alphabet … From now on, everyone has to read. In order to read, you need a medium. This medium cannot simply be a computer screen.”
DIENACHT
A magazine about photography, design and subculture is made twice a year by one-man, Calin Kruse.
When I unpacked this magazine it was obvious I had some kind of special magazine in my hands. A small-size magazine, with semi-glossy paper that shoots the cover images in your face. The review copies are issues 8 and 9. And the cover images are just right in your face! Nailed to the ground you just want to keep staring at them, but curiosity wins and I start flipping the pages.
The biggest thumbs up for DieNacht magazine is that it has a very strong editorial content. The featured content is very well chosen and is intriguing, fascinating. Each item has a got the space in the magazine to be explain itself and be fully understood.
The graphic design and typography is well done, simple but effective. Not completely my cup of tea, but the projects and images are so strong that the design is just right. It supports images and text.
The magazine is written in German, but in the back are English translations of some main articles. Sometimes the accompanying texts are in English too, there's no clear line in that. Should be fun if the magazine will be in English to get a wider audience which it deserves. For now, learn German or just be amazed by the good content of the magazines. You won;t see the famous artists but the ones that are making awesome work. Which is, in my opinion as we also do with O.K. Periodicals, the most interesting. You get in contact with people who still really want to rock the world.
Also nice to know is that DieNacht organizes photography exhibition.
Be sure to get a copy!
http://www.dienacht-magazine.com
Typeradio presents: Now We Are Talking on 2 september. A new free open air summer type and design festival. Bands, Free Speech, Films, Workshops, Surf, Camping and Love.
Again something of pure awesomness on O.K. Periodicals blog today!
This is an interactive installation made by Chris O'Shea (formerly known as PixelSumo). Bringing the imagination of children to life through storytelling, performance and technology.
This installation aims to encourage children to use their creativity to bring stories to life. It helps to improve their confidence in self expression and develops literacy and speaking skills. The installation allows them to create a performance from within their imagination, on stage, in front of an audience of family and friends.
The use of technology literally brings their drawings to life on stage, allowing them to interact and respond to their creations in real time. By using a holographic projection film; sets, characters and objects appear to float on stage alongside the performers. A camera and custom software track the performers, allowing the scene to react in a playful & more dynamic way.
For children who show disinterest in writing stories and drawing, but love to play video games, this project hopes to inspire them to participate, creating their own immersive worlds that they can be proud to express their own creations through.
Posted by Test
12-11-2011
